论新闻职业公共性的实现困境与途径

新闻职业的显著特征在于其公共性和公益性.主要表现在:新闻职业是现代社会不可或缺的新闻信息的生产者与提供者,在满足社会需要方面起着一种公共服务作用;同时,新闻职业作为稀缺公共资源的受托使用者,必须对社会公众承担应尽的义务和责任.但在现实生活中,新闻职业公共性的实现面临着自利性和阶级性的双重挤压而陷于困境.因此,需要采取积极的应对措施,通过有效的途径来充分实现新闻职业的公共性.

Analyzing the Difficulty of and the Approaches to Making Journalism an Undertaking of Publicity

The prominent feature of journalism lies in its publiclity and its commitment to the public good: it supplies the information which is indispensable in the modern society,providing public services through meeting the social needs;at the same time,as a trusted user of the scarce public resources,it has to shoulder the corresponding obiligations and duties and be responsible to the public.However,in realtiy the self-interest and the class consciousness of journalism constitute a double squeeze on its publicit...